nursemike ASN, RN

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    Hospitals SUCK at orientation!!

    nursemike replied to SoundofMusic's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Please bear in mind that people aren't as apt to post when their orientation was great, so you're apt to get a skewed view. You'll see an occasional "I love my preceptor!" thread, but like everything...
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    Hospitals SUCK at orientation!!

    nursemike replied to SoundofMusic's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I was preparing to post on this thread with some pithy comments about NCLEX pass rates and accreditation, but I got called away before I finished. Now I see you've beaten me to it. Well, fair...
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    Guys: How do you handle the female aggressiveness/possessiveness

    nursemike replied to lpnguy26's topic in Men in Nursing

    I notice this thread started a year ago, so hopefully the OP will have resolved his dilemma, by now. Of course, the underlying issue is kinda timeless--boys and girls playing nicely, together. I'm...
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    Injuries

    nursemike replied to shellsgogreen's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My knees are nearly shot--and no, I'm not the head nurse. I wore them out in my previous career, crawling around on roofs. I was a carpenter, but a lot of times the best money was in putting on...
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    License Verification on-line

    nursemike replied to KellNY's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think it may vary by state, and in WV by the whim of the BON. Some of my classmates posted after a day or two, but it took 8 long days for mine to come up. (Maybe there were a lot of results, since...
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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    nursemike replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    Had a pt over the weekend who'd had a Foley dc'd 4 hrs before I came on, so she needed to void by 2100 or possibly be straight cath'ed. The nurse I followed warned me she'd probably be shy about a...
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    I suck!

    nursemike replied to LPN30's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I don't think finishing the first year is some kind of magic milestone--it is a milestone, but you don't automatically wake up on your 366th day and say, "Aha! Now I get it!" I'm sure you are a good...
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    Unprofessional conduct

    nursemike replied to cabbagepatchkid's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've heard, and said, a number of inappropriate things in the med room. I have passed along in report that the patient, or his/her family, is a PITA. We vent. We warn each other. We aren't quite as...
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    Do men have priority when considered for Nursing School?

    nursemike replied to playbanjogood's topic in Men in Nursing

    I've always heard the term "gentleman's C" as a grade that isn't really earned, but the instructor doesn't want to impede the student's progress in a (usually unrelated) major, like giving a business...
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    Nursing and then Medicine: Wrong profession?

    nursemike replied to Apollorn's topic in Men in Nursing

    I kind of agree that medical school is a pretty big commitment to undertake with an equivocal attitude or for the reasons you expressed, but that isn't to say it definitely isn't for you. Since...
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    Do men have priority when considered for Nursing School?

    nursemike replied to playbanjogood's topic in Men in Nursing

    A= Excellent= 4 pts. B= Good= 3 pts. C= Average= 2 pts. D= Poor= 1 pt. F (or E) = Failing= 0 pts. Then, in college, you weight each grade by the number of credits. At my school, classes were weighted...
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    Is this all there is?

    nursemike replied to nurseby07's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Does give one something to think about, doesn't it? In school, my ride along day with home health was awesome. The only thing that gave me pause (and still does) was the paperwork--but even then, it...
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    Just got accepted to Fairmont State Nursing AHHHHH

    nursemike replied to NervousNinny's topic in General Nursing

    Kek kek kek kek! That's how Peterson's Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America describes the call of the Peregrine Falcon. Also We-chew, but that could be misinterpretted in WV,...
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    Just got accepted to Fairmont State Nursing AHHHHH

    nursemike replied to NervousNinny's topic in General Nursing

    Congratulations! Go Falcons--Yay team! And welcome to allnurses! I wish I could tell you there's no reason to be scared. Well, okay, there's no reason to be scared. But nervous? Oh, my Heavens,...
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    Lack of Response - Interview

    nursemike replied to RN4Ever_2008's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've had friends who've dated guys who've shown signs of being a jerk early in the relationship, and I've always advised them that he is on his very best behavior, now, and is not likely to get more...
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    Nose Piercing

    nursemike replied to TypicalFish's topic in First Year After Licensure

    A bump is a post that just serves to move a thread up on the list of recent threads, so more people will see
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    Do men have priority when considered for Nursing School?

    nursemike replied to playbanjogood's topic in Men in Nursing

    In any given year, there are literally thousands of women, world wide, who do not get pregnant and start families, but I often recommend nursing to young women as one of the friendlier (relatively...
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    Best nursing programs for men?

    nursemike replied to davebd's topic in Men in Nursing

    I'm not aware of any programs that are particularly male-friendly (or unfriendly), either, but I did attend an associates degree program at a community college that had quite a few "non-traditional"...
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    heavy lifting

    nursemike replied to nads786's topic in Men in Nursing

    I don't believe I called anyone stupid, and if I appeared to imply that, it surely wasn't intended. I stand by my assertion that asking someone to assist with lifting because they are strong is...
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    heparin flush and giving morphine pulse o2 86%

    nursemike replied to puddingpie's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I remember holding my breath the first time I titrated a morphine drip up to 5mg/hr, and I didn't know whether to cry or puke the first time I turned one up to 10. In both cases, the patient (on...
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    heavy lifting

    nursemike replied to nads786's topic in Men in Nursing

    I'd probably be asking another female staff member if she knew how I could get coffee stains out of my uniform. It isn't at all the same thing. Physical strength is a strength. Knowledge is a...
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    Completly new to this....and very nervous

    nursemike replied to Xochi16's topic in Nursing Career

    You don't specialize in school You study everything, and you'll probably hear that nursing is holistic--we treat the whole patient (true, but we still whine when we get floated to a different unit!)...
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    Silly question

    nursemike replied to rastanursern's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I like your
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    Finding a Few Good Men

    nursemike replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Men in Nursing

    I suppose it would be wrong to post billboards showing a group of hot female nurses...yeah, that would be wrong. Effective, maybe, but not the sort of professional image we're looking for. But,...
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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    nursemike replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    So, I was leaving work the other morning and heard one of the dayshift nurses remark: "So, I'm the only male nurse on the floor, today, and they give the gyn patient to me?" He had a point, but what...